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1 " You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. " People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all. "
2 " our contemporary ideas about manliness, reflected in action movies and westerns, generally prohibit so-called real men from displaying high emotion, with the exception of anger. John Wayne doesn’t cry. By contrast, Achilles, the epitome of manliness in Homer’s Iliad, weeps openly and at length over the loss of his friend Patroclus. "
3 " Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that. "
4 " Hollywood is throwing action movies at me. "
5 " One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice. "
6 " A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action. "
7 " Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place. "
8 " I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain. "
9 " There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story. "
